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Posted by dorayme on 01/24/07 22:26
In article <9fkfr250sb8dgr0cbfq4bvojre2q4pqolo@4ax.com>,
William Hughes <cvproj@grandecom.net> wrote:
> > Although less of
> >an issue these days, there are still a lot of people with 10KB/sec
> >(56Kbit/sec) dialup connections. These means that the page would load in
> >about 5 seconds, assuming no other large documents like images.
>
> Luddites. :)
The situation is much worse than Jim says. 10k per sec is not any
figure I have much experienced when I was on dial up*, nor today
on most dial up in most parts of the world. We can talk fancy
things like 56k modems, throughput, upput, sideput but the actual
truth is dialup folks rarely even get half of what Jim is saying
on average. Closer to 3k. They are not luddites, they are
dependent on what is available in their situation at what price
they can afford.
It is important to make your pages load reasonably quickly for
them. For your specialist, interesting information, I don't think
it unreasonable for folks to wait even 20 secs or more for the
whole page to load as long as some comes quickly.
*Had I got 10K per sec, I would have delayed getting broadband
even longer! Now I have way over the top speeds. What is the
opposite of Luddite? I feel like one of these latter.
--
dorayme
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